On Du Bois' Notion of Double Consciousness

Bibliographic Data

ID4079683
AuthorsFrank M Kirkland (Hunter College, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume8
Issue2
Pages137-148
Publication date2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12001
OpenAlexW1567091488
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited10

The recent reception of Du Bois' notion of "double consciousness" in the humanities has affirmed the notion as crucial and pivotal throughout his work. In contrast, its recent reception in the social sciences has tended to reject its centrality and importance. This essay will give general credence to the former position but, more importantly, show why a turn to Rousseau's conception of amour-propre may illuminate the importance of "double consciousness" in and for Du Bois' 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk (SBF), despite the fact that he never elaborated on or embraced the notion in work subsequent to SBF's publication

Centrality · Consciousness · Credence · Double consciousness · Epistemology · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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